The Godfather [简装]

《教父》提供了某种根植于美国人心中的可怕的愉悦因素，使读者近距离观察到一个令人震颤的黑暗而暴力的非法阶层，献给读者一场凶险生活方式的飨宴。 汤姆?汉克斯说：“它就是我们男人的圣经，那里面包含了所有的智慧。

Book Description
Reissued to coincide with the September Random House release of The Last Don, here is the sweeping saga of a family and of its leader, a friendly and reasonable man who just happens to be the deadliest gang leader in the Cosa Nostra.

Amazon.com
The story of Don Vito Corleone, the head of a New York Mafia family, inspired some of the most successful movies ever. It is in Mario Puzo's The Godfather that Corleone first appears. As Corleone's desperate struggle to control the Mafia underworld unfolds, so does the story of his family. The novel is full of exquisitely detailed characters who, despite leading unconventional lifestyles within a notorious crime family, experience the triumphs and failures of the human condition. Filled with the requisite valor, love, and rancor of a great epic, The Godfather is the definitive gangster novel.

From Library Journal
Diehard Godfather fans play second banana to no other subculture in their obsession with the minutiae of Puzo's novel and Coppola's films. These dedicated fans will be most disappointed by the new audio version, although perhaps only an hour of material is missing, but casual aficionados will barely notice the abridgment. Missing are the subplot involving Sonny's mistress, Lucy Mancini, and Dr. William Kennedy and the descriptions of the regional Mafia chieftains that precede the commission meeting at which Don Corleone flushes out Don Barzini as his number one rival. Actor Joe Mantegna does a fine job throughout, largely resisting the temptation to put on voices for too many of the characters. However, this cannot be said for his Don Corleone. Perhaps it is vengeance: after all, Andy Garcia, as the late Don's nephew, Vincent Mancini, put the hit on Mantegna's Joey Zasa in Godfather III, but whatever the reason, Mantegna gives Corleone a raspy falsetto-imagine the Pillsbury Doughboy with a tracheotomy-that ranks as one of the worst Brando impressions ever. Also, Puzo's chilling ending in which Kay converts to Catholicism with the hope of saving her husband's soul is inexplicably transformed into a chamber-of-commerce-style bromide about the family's new life in Nevada. Still, the popularity of Puzo's novel 27 years after its publication makes this abridgment a must-have.
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　Adam Mazmanian, "Library Journal"

Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.5 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)10.6

英文原版引进

《教父》是美国作家马里奥·普佐的一部著名小说，小说描述了黑手党的产生、发展的全过程：外来移民为生活所逼，铤而走险，靠走私、赌博、贩毒、谋杀而在美国社会中争得一席之地。

他们依赖非法营生而逐步发展壮大，其势力也渗透到各个领域，在政府枢纽部门也有了他们的代理人。当他们羽翼丰满时，便不满足于现有的非法地位，力求融入合法社会，毫无恐惧地享受他们的财富。然而，具有讽刺意味的是，他们由非法社会向合法社会的过渡却偏偏是依靠非法的暴力行为得以完成的。根据本书改编的电影为美国电影史上一个十分悠久的经典类型--犯罪片开拓了宽广的前景，它不仅拓展了犯罪片的表现领域，其思想意义和内涵也远远超越了暴力的范畴，并将主题升华为人类社会中最常见的权力交替中的深层意义--权力与罪恶的关系。影片在７０年代初曾轰动一时，取得了商业和评论上的双重成功，片中"教父"的扮演者马龙·白兰度带动的"马龙·白兰度热"像旋风一样几乎波及整个世界，而导演科波拉也从此奠定了他在好莱坞中的"教父"地位。

马里奥·普佐当年创作的小说《教父》是美国文学创作中的一个转折点，它使黑手党问题引起了举国上下的普遍注意，从２０世纪７０年代初开始，反映黑手党的作品就如雨后春笋一般繁盛起来，但是我们认为，没有一部能同《教父》相提并论。